WORK-RELATED INJURY OR ILLNESS |
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| Fracture | |
| Breaking of a bone, cartilage, etc. | |
| Chronic joint or muscle condition | |
| Arthritis | |
| Disorders of the joints | |
| Disorders of the spinal vertebrae and inervertebral discs | |
| Disorders of muscle, tendons and other soft tissues (e.g. Occupational Overuse Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury if this is the only description given) | |
| Acquired musculoskeletal deformities (e.g. flat feet, mallet finger, hammer toe) | |
| Sprain/strain | |
| Sprains and strains of joints and adjacent muscles | |
| Acute trauma sprains and strains | |
| Sprains and strains of cartilage | |
| Dislocations | |
| Cut/open wound | |
| Open wound not involving traumatic amputation (e.g. broken tooth, cuts, punctures, dog bites, tearing away of fingernail, serious wounds containing glass, metal or other foreign body) | |
| Crushing injury/internal organ damage | |
| Internal injury of chest abdomen and pelvis | |
| Injury with intact skin surface and crushing injury (e.g. bruises, haematomas) | |
| Superficial injury - covers minor injuries such as: | |
| Needle stick puncture | |
| Abrasions, grazes, friction burns or blisters | |
| Scratch injury from a foreign body in eye | |
| Splinter or other foreign body in places other than eye | |
| Stress or other mental condition | |
| Stress | |
| Anxiety | |
| Depression | |
| Nervous breakdown | |
| Effects of witnessing traumatic events | |
| Effects of involvement in a hold-up | |
| Victim of harassment | |
| Hyperventilation (hysterical, psychogenic) | |
| Hysterical symptoms | |
| Phobias | |
| Obsessional and compulsive symptoms | |
| Short term shock | |
| Amputation | |
| Traumatic amputation including loss of eyeball | |
| Burns | |
| Electrical burns, chemical burns, cold burns, hot burns, friction burns, combination burn or burns not elsewhere classified | |
| Other | |
| Responses that could not be included into one of the categories above such as asthma, cancer, concussion or heart attack | |
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HOW WORK-RELATED INJURY OR ILLNESS OCCURRED |
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| Lifting, pushing, pulling, bending | |
| Muscular stress while lifting, carrying or putting down objects | |
| | Single or multiple events | |
| | Lifting or carrying resulting in stress fractures | |
| | Repetitive movement, high muscle loading | |
| Muscular stress while handling objects | |
| | Single or multiple events | |
| | Pushing or pulling objects | |
| | Throwing or pressing objects | |
| | Stress fractures from handling objects | |
| | Continually shovelling | |
| | Climbing ladders causing upper and lower limb injuries | |
| Muscular stress with no objects being handled | |
| | Bending down, reaching, turning and twisting movements where no objects are being handled | |
| | Stress fractures without objects being handled (e.g. from running) | |
| | Continually twisting neck with no object being handled | |
| Repetitive movement with low muscle loading | |
| Occupational overuse and repetitive movement occurrences | |
| Prolonged standing, working in cramped or unchanging positions | |
| Working in cramped or unchanging positions | |
| Prolonged standing causing varicose veins | |
| Vehicle accident | |
| Any accident or incident on a private road, farm, mine site or footpath involving a vehicle where the most serious injury is sustained as a result of that accident or injury | |
| A vehicle catching on fire after the accident | |
| Any accident or incident in a factory, mine or car park involving a fall from a moving vehicle | |
| Hitting, being hit or cut by object or vehicle | |
| Hitting stationary objects or moving objects (e.g. cutting oneself while using a knife or other tool) | |
| Rubbing and chafing from wearing footwear or clothes, using tools or handling objects | |
| Being hit by falling objects | |
| Being bitten by an animal | |
| Being bitten by a snake | |
| Being trapped by moving machinery or equipment or between stationary and moving objects | |
| Exposure to mechanical vibration (e.g. from chain saws) | |
| Being assaulted by a person or persons | |
| Fall on same level | |
| All slips, trips, stumbles, steps and jumps, even if a fall does not follow | |
| Falls of short distances such as off a curb or into a gutter | |
| Falls up stairs | |
| Fall with no further description | |
| Fall from a height | |
| A fall from ground level to below ground level | |
| Landing awkwardly after a jump from a height | |
| Falling off an animal | |
| A fall down stairs etc. | |
| Exposure to mental stress | |
| Exposure to a traumatic event | |
| Exposure to workplace or occupational violence (e.g. victim of assault or threatened assault by a person or persons, being a victim of or witnessing hold-ups etc.) | |
| Being a victim of sexual, racial, or other verbal harassment | |
| Work pressure (e.g. mental stress arising from work responsibilities, conflict with peers, performance counselling) | |
| Attempted suicide | |
| Other mental stress factors | |
| Long term exposure to sound | |
| Long term exposure to workshop or factory noise, sharp sudden sounds, or low frequency (subsonic pressure) sounds | |
| Contact with a chemical or substance | |
| Single contact with chemical or substance | |
| | Immediate allergic reactions to a substance | |
| | Splash with acid | |
| | Caustic or corrosive substances in the eyes | |
| | Contact dermatitis | |
| | Swallowing chemical substances | |
| | Exposure to smoke from a bush fire, chemical fire etc. | |
| Long term contact with chemicals or substances | |
| | Acquired allergic reactions | |
| | Slow poisoning, as with lead or other heavy metals | |
| | Long term inhalation of dust or fibres, as with asbestos fibres | |
| | Exposure to cigarette smoke | |
| | Insect and spider bites and stings | |
| | Contact with poisonous parts of plant or marine life (e.g. blue ringed octopus, bluebottles, stone fish etc.) | |
| | Other and unspecified contact with chemical or substance | |
| Other | |
| Those responses that could not be included into one of the categories above such as contact with hot food/drink/beverages, exposure to extreme weather, jumping on objects, struck by lightening or sunburn | |
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